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The meaning of INOCULATE is to introduce immunologically active material (such as an antibody or antigen) into especially in order to treat or prevent a disease. How to use inoculate in a sentence. Did you know?
to introduce something such as bacteria, a virus, or a fungus into an animal or plant as part of an experiment or to encourage it to grow there: inoculate something with something Researchers inoculated some rabbits with the antigen and measured the amount of antibodies the animals produced.
Inoculate definition: to implant (a disease agent or antigen) in a person, animal, or plant to produce a disease for study or to stimulate disease resistance.. See examples of INOCULATE used in a sentence.
If you inoculate someone, you try to make him immune to a disease by injecting a little dose of it, so his body can make antibodies to fight it off. When you were little you probably got a vaccine to inoculate you against smallpox.
to introduce something such as bacteria, a virus, or a fungus into an animal or plant as part of an experiment or to encourage it to grow there: inoculate something with something Researchers inoculated some rabbits with the antigen and measured the amount of antibodies the animals produced.
1. (Medicine) to introduce (the causative agent of a disease) into the body of (a person or animal), in order to induce immunity. 2. (Microbiology) ( tr) to introduce (microorganisms, esp bacteria) into (a culture medium) 3. ( tr) to cause to be influenced or imbued, as with ideas or opinions.
Inoculate definition: To introduce a serum, vaccine, or antigenic substance into (the body of a person or animal), especially to produce or boost immunity to a specific disease.
To inoculate a person or animal means to inject a weak form of a disease into their body as a way of protecting them against the disease.
Definition of inoculate verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
INOCULATE meaning: to give (a person or animal) a weakened form of a disease in order to prevent infection by the disease often + against.
